About this blog

This blog is about old trucks and any other historical matters that I feel like writing about. John and I have four old trucks, a 1976 N1025 Volvo, which John purchased new, a 1974 1418 Mercedes Benz, a 1989 Volvo 12 Intercooler and a 1973 F86 Volvo which is also known as 'the Bubble'. John is a Cartage Contractor and has driven and owned trucks for over 50 years.

About Me

I am the Local History Librarian at at Public Library Service in the south-east suburbs of Melbourne. I am also the President of the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historical Society, the secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association and the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Club.

Friday, March 21, 2014

The Ballarat Branch of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club held their 4th annual truck show at Clunes Show Grounds on March 9. It was a great day - around 160 trucks plus cars, tractors and other vehicles. This post shows the American makes such as Inters, Kenworths and Macks. If you want to see the Chevs, Dodges and Fords then click here. To see the English and European makes, plus some historic Hondas and buses, click here.

Stephen Corstorphan's Diamond T

Aldo Marson's Diamond T

A GMC

As at every show, there were plenty of Internationals of all models and years

Trevor Davis' 1927 Inter

Red Inter 1 - Murray Pope owns this fabulous one

Red Inter 2

Red Inter 3 - Garry Gilcrists on the back of his Dodge

Red Inter 4 - George Pyers

Red Inter 5

Red Inter 6

Red Inter 7

Red Inter 8

Red Inter 9

Red Inter 10

Rick Hayman's truck - and a photo, below, of the treasures on the back

Terry Laffan's Inter

Colin Hooks's Inter

Green Inter 1

Green Inter 2

Green Inter 3

Green Inter 4 - this is a great looking truck, owned by Barry Dodson

Alan Taylor's Transtar

Another Transtar

This very neat Inter, all the way from South Australia, is the last of the Inters

Kenworth - nine are shown here

Rod Calleja's Mack Superliner

Another Mack

Two views of the Osh Kosh, because I like them

Peterbillt, owned by Rob French

Studebaker

A White

1930 Willys Overland

This post shows the American makes such as Inters, Kenworths and Macks. If you want to see the Chevs, Dodges and Fords then click here. To see the English and European makes, plus some historic Hondas and buses, click here.

The Ballarat Branch of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club held their 4th annual truck show at Clunes Show Grounds on March 9. It was a great day - around 160 trucks plus cars, tractors and other vehicles. You see heaps of trucks at Clunes that you don't see anywhere else. In this post I will show you all the English and European makes, plus some historic Hondas and a few buses and some historic RACV service vehicles. If you want to see the Chevs, Dodges and Fords that were displayed, then click here. To see all the other American makes such as Inters, Kenworths and Macks, click here.

Warren Harris' AEC - his fleet is shown below

Murray Pope's Albion - you see it twice because I like it!

And here it is again with his Inter

Lots of Austins on display

Another nice looking truck, so nice, here it is again, below

Plenty of Bedfords as well, they like the English trucks up in Ballarat

Jim Parker's Bedford and the equally well known British Bedford of Dave Horne is shown below

We saw this at Lancefield, as well, and it's a great truck. Another view is shown below

Peter Maude's Commer, above, and Steve Camilleri's is below

Two Fargos - the one below is a bit out of focus, but it is too nice a truck to leave out

This is a Honda, 2 views.

Another Honda - this belongs to Warren Harris

Warren Harris' other truck - a Karrier

Here's a Land Rover

A Magirius Deutz - don't see them very often

This is our 1974 1418 Mercedes Benz

Tony Rinaldi's 2244 Benz

A pair of Morris Commercials

A Thornycroft

Here's our Volvo - 1976 N10 and both of our trucks are shown below

We weren't the only Volvo on display - here's a G88, from two different angles.

Two nicely restored RACV Service vans were on display

Here they are together

Bedford bus

Comair bus

GMC bus

In this post you saw all the English and European makes, plus some historic Hondas and buses. If you want to see the Chevs, Dodges and Fords that were displayed, then click here. To see all the other American makes such as Inters, Kenworths and Macks, click here.